French Costume Drama of the 1950s : Fashioning Politics in Film.
Title:
French Costume Drama of the 1950s : Fashioning Politics in Film.
Author:
Hayward, Susan.
ISBN:
9781841504346
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (482 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Contents -- List of Figures and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Contexts -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Setting Out the Terrain: Genre and History -- Chapter 3: Setting Out the Terrain: Technologies, Technicians and Stars -- PART II: Fairytales, Foxy Women and Swashbuckling Heroes -- Chapter 4: Costume Drama from Late-Medieval to the Eighteenth Century: An Overview -- Chapter 5: Mysterious Microcosms: Three 'Fairytales' -- Chapter 6: Foxy Women: Queens, Mistresses and Minxes -- Chapter 7: Swashbuckling Heroes -- PART III: Representing History: Epics, Courtesans and Master Narratives, 1796-1888 -- Chapter 8: Setting the Terrain: France 1796-1888 -- Chapter 9: Representing History: 1796-1814 Napoleon Bonaparte/Napoleon I -- Chapter 10: Representing the Social: Restoration-July Monarchy (1814-1848) -- Chapter 11: Epic Grandeur: Part One, Philanthropists -- Chapter 12: Epic Grandeur: Part Two, Avengers -- Chapter 13: From the Second to the Third Republic: Innovation, Corruption and New Identities -- Chapter 14: The Second Empire in the Pink: Violets, Waltzes, and the Pursuit of Knowledge -- Chapter 15: The Second Empire in the Raw: Martine Carol's Celebrity Courtesans -- Chapter 16: From Empire to Republic: A Modernized France Emerging -- Chapter 17: Censoring the Classics: Bel-Ami, Louis Daquin (1954 -- released in France 1957) -- PART IV: Belle Epoque Mania: Paris, the Provinces and Biopics -- Chapter 18: Belle Epoque Films: An Overview -- Chapter 19: Parisian Society of the Belle Epoque through Film -- Chapter 20: Truth and Lies and the Pursuit of Marriage: Love Intrigues outside Paris -- Chapter 21: Making Li(v)es: Belle Epoque Biopics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendix: French Costume Drama of the 1950s -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
When political and civil unrest threatened France's social order in the 1950s, French cinema provided audiences a seemingly unique form of escapism from such troubled times: a nostalgic look back to the France of the nineteenth and earlier centuries, with costume dramas set in the age of Napoleon, the Belle Époque, the Revolution and further back still to seventeenth-century swashbuckler adventures and tales of mystery and revenge. Film critics, have routinely dismissed this period and this genre of French cinema, overlooking its importance in terms of political cultural history. French Costume Drama of the 1950s redresses this balance, exploring a diverse range of films including Guitry's Napoléon (1955), Vernay's Le Comte de Monte Cristo (1953), and Le Chanois' Les Misérables (1958) to expose the political cultural paradox between nostalgia for a lost past and the drive for modernization.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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